Book description
An exquisitely designed silver coffee-pot in the shape of a
locomotive is on its way to Cardiff in the care of the young,
talented silversmith, Hugh Kellow. It has been commissioned by
wealthy ironmaster Clifford Tomkins for his acquisitive wife, who
wants it to be the envy of all her friends Â- and enemies.
But the coffee-pot is stolen. When a gruesome murder is committed
at the Railway Hotel, Winifred Tomkins is distraught. Caring little
for the dead silversmith, all she can think about is her missing
treasure. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming of the Detective
Department are summoned to Wales from London by telegraph and they
are soon confronted by some additional crimes. The situation is
complicated by the arrival of a famous theatre company and by
revelations of illicit liaisons among members of the local high
society. There is no shortage of suspects and Colbeck has to sift
through layers of deceit to find the killer Â- before it is too late.
Edward Marston was born and brought up in South Wales. A full-time
writer for over thirty years, he has worked in radio, film, television
and the theatre and is a former chairman of the Crime Writers'
Association. Prolific and highly successful, he is equally at home
writing children's books or literary criticism, plays or biographies.
There are currently seven books in the series featuring Inspector
Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming, set in the 1850s.
www. edwardmarston. com
